Factbox: Kenya starvation deaths latest in long list of cult tragedies
THE death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult called the Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, has risen to 89 and could rise further, Kenyan authorities said. The following are some of the deadliest cult-related incidents in recent history. UGANDA, MARCH 2000 A doomsday cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, burns nearly 800 followers alive in a locked church after its prediction that the world would end at the start of 2000 fails to come true. Advertisement · Scroll to continue UNITED STATES, MARCH 1997 Thirty-nine members of…